Manley Variable Mu Stereo Tube Compressor / Limiter
In perfect working order complete with 3 months warranty. Great overall condition with some light scratches, rack rash and general marks commensurate with age and use. No original box or accessories included.
The Manley Variable MU® Limiter Compressor has been Manley’s best selling product for many years. It is one of the very few compressors that has become a real standard in studios and contributed to most hit records over the last decade and probably the next. “”Mu”” is tube-speak for gain, and Variable Mu® is Manley’s registered trademark for this limiter compressor. It works by using the “”remote cut-off”” or re-biasing of a vacuum tube to achieve compression. The precious vintage Fairchild 670 also uses this technique and is one of few all-tube compressor to do so, that we know of. Even the side-chain has glowing rectifier bottles. How’s it work? The unique 5670 dual triode is at the center of the peak-reducing and compression action constantly being re-biased by the vacuum tube rectified side-chain control voltages which cause this tube to smoothly change its gain. Just like that.